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• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... was just after 1 am. We’d gone to all-you-can-eat sushi for three hours ... account for mistakes. We should put in our schedules, she said, noon to 1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... good crosswalks, the safest way for me to do this is by going into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  singing group within Next House! Our main goal for the group was for it to ... went to a sound check at 4:30ish for the song I actually led and put ... to MC, so I had to emergency cover for that."][/annotation] And yet

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  . Which brings me back to my point: if, for an instant, you are inspired to ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I ... this much. This week, to my academic detriment, I'm proof that energy

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  I recently bought a pair of rollerblades for $8 from the Garment ... rolling backpacks and headgear. It's not that my throwback to the early 90s ... 's just that Cambridge streets are really more paved for those with slightly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  front desk for students to use. The receptionist smiles at me as I hastily ... , you actually expect MIT kids to remember things that aren't numbered ... features include an über-convenient café, an Athena computer cluster (not to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  's for 29 hours per day and then lied about it on my blog. (*I plan to ... allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... with an unearthly chorus of low self-esteem for the past week. Take a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  one of the 170 student groups trying to recruit you for next year, come ... 'm most excited to see what Marilee Jones performs. I'm hoping for a little ... hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  opened my eyes to creative places to tap into for inspiration, and I became ... primarily for freshmen. I think I’m more of a bottom-up learner that tries to ... appreciate the trust the professor had for students to find their own

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Wedding of All Time I walked Tim the beaver down the aisle

  

  the fursuits. When I wished for my dreams to become reality, this is not ... be a thing. They thought about it for a bit, talked to Caltech ... fingers as well, so we had to make a small and a large ring for the ring

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  out what I wanted to write, then procrastinated for several months ... own words, exactly the meaning I was trying to impart. I’m thankful for ... the green or pale pink of street clothes stood out. We’d only begun to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  . :) Like in high school, I was happy to receive course credit for something I ... friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be ... —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  and the administration) have asked for people to tell them before ... usually let them roam the halls all day, with their doors ajar to allow for ... I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Misadventures of Carl I may have acquired a shopping cart...

  

  boarded the next shuttle to take our groceries back (thank you Fiona for ... Benson L. ‘27 to look for potentially useful items at the Swapfest (a ... Costco, and we had just missed the next shuttle back to campus. We

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 14, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  music for the runway portion of Gala, is starting to set up their ... will be funneled to the rooms in the back for styling and fitting ... pieced together, including an improvised mylar barrier for the models to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  this book to me for over a year, but it took me forever to pick it up ... -reads for me for years. Whenever I feel too emotionally drained to invest ... thing for me to say Gatsby is all right: I am Jewish, I haven’t suffered

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  Technology Review. The manuscript book is for scratch work on PSETS. How to ... computer program ever. GAMIT How to Get Around MIT, the one stop shop for ... ? Let's go on a tour! High School Yearbook For those nostalgic moments

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting ... your missed shot for the rest of the match. Incentive to hit the center ... to take a quick break from studying for physics to finish up this post

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea.” My goal for the upcoming academic year is to expand into as much ... for Fall '09) Part II: pika Refraction mural Want to ask Pink Floyd

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  MIT alums are known for many things, but i's not everyday that one wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005